Students spend between six and nine hours per week outside of class in activities such as learning vocabulary, reading, completing written exercises, working on pronunciation, preparing oral presentations, and working with the multimedia files that accompany the text.

VI. Catalog Course Description

In this interactive course, which continues the work of FREN110, students acquire a working knowledge of French necessary to accomplish basic tasks. This course emphasizes comprehension and practice in pronunciation and conversation, as well as listening, speaking, reading and writing skill in an authentic French cultural context.

VII. Required Course Content and Direction

Learning Goals:

Course

Students will:

acquire and demonstrate an elementary, but growing, degree of competence in the four language skills: speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing;

articulate similarities and differences in the various cultures of the world and demonstrate familiarity with the skills necessary to make informed judgments.

Planned Sequence of Topics and/or Learning Activities:

Grammatical topics:

The present tense of modal verbs
Basic prepositions and prepositions of place
Giving commands
Irregular verbs such as aller and avoirStem-changing verbs
The comparative and the superlative
Expressing opinions
Inversion questions
Ir and re verbs
Expressing personal relationships and ownership
Asking for specifics
Expressing the date and the year
Pointing out people or things
Possessive adjectives

Fashion
Paris and its historical and cultural importance
Music in France
The family in France

Assessment Methods for Core Learning Goals:

Course

Students

take quizzes and tests;

complete written assignments, such as short compositions and grammatical exercises;

perform listening comprehension exercises;

participate in speaking tasks, which may include oral interviews, conversations and/or presentations that assess proficiency levels.

Core (if applicable)

Cultural Perspectives: Quizzes and tests taken in class include the cultural topics presented in the course. Students compare, contrast, analyze, and/or defend differing worldviews and practices of some French-speaking people.

International, Gender, and/or Minority Perspectives: Quizzes and tests taken in class include the cultural topics presented in the course. Students articulate similarities and differences in the various cultures of the world and demonstrate familiarity with the skills necessary to make informed judgments.

Reference, Resource, or Learning Materials to be used by Students:

Students use the textbook, workbook, and multimedia resources of first-year proficiency-based French program. See course format.

VIII. Teaching Methods Employed

Section VIII is not being used in new and revised syllabi as of 12/10/08.